230 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
“Adult male.-—Head black, feathers of crest sulphur-white at base, then 
black, narrowly edged with whitish; rest of upper surface with wings 
light ashy brown, all the feathersggtged with whitish. Tail broadly tipped 
with white and with two broad whitish bars and part of a third basal one; 
throat bluish ash, unmarked ; rest of under surface pale cinnamon, shaded 
with ash and spotted and banded as in S. holospilus. Length, 502; wing, 
317; tail, 229; tarsus, 71. Distinguished from 8. holospilus by its small 
size and pale coloring.” (Steere.) 
The validity of this species is somewhat doubtful. Bourns and Wor- 
cester consider that it “was founded on differences due to change of season 
and to individual variation.” Grant thinks “that S. panayensis may fairly 
be recognized as a distinct form.” 
Genus BUTASTUR Hodgson, 1843. 
Bill small, its edge slightly sinuate; wings moderate, primaries cut on 
inner web; first primary short; secondaries much shorter than primaries ; 
tarsus feathered in front for a short distance, a row of large hexagonal 
scales in front, rest of tarsus with small hexagonal scales. 
189. BUTASTUR INDICUS (Gmelin). 
TIC-WEE BUZZARD, 
Falco indicus GMELIN, Syst. Nat. (1788), 1, pt. 1, 264. 
Butastur indicus SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1874), 1, 297; Hand-List 
(1899), 1, 266; OaTEs, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 278; McGrecor and 
WoRCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 43. 
Lim-bas’, Manila and Lubang; tic-weé, in general; cu-yab’, Calayan. 
Balabae (Everett) ; Basilan (Steere Exp., McGregor); Batan N. (Edmonds*) ; 
Bohol (Everett, Steere Hxp.) ; Cagayancillo (McGregor) ; Cagayan Sulu (Mearns) ; 
Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Calayan (McGregor) ; Cebu (£ve- 
rett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Cuyo (Meyer); Fuga ( White- 
head) ; Guimaras (Meyer); Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (Meyer, Everett, Steere 
Eap., Whitehead, McGregor) ; Masbate (Bourns & Worcester) ; Mindanao (Steere, 
Koch & Schadenberg, Steere Exp., Goodfellow); Mindoro (Everett, McGregor, 
Porter); Negros (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Keay); Palawan (Everett, 
Whitehead, Platen, Bourns & Worcester,.White); Panay (Steere, Steere Hap., 
Bourns & Worcester); Samar (Bourns & Worcester); Sibay (McGregor & Wor- 
cester) ; Siquijor (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester) ; Sulu (Bourns & Worcester) ; 
Tawi Tawi (Bourns ¢& Worcester); Verde (McGregor). Ussuri-land; Japan; 
China to Malay Peninsula; Celebes. 
“Adult.—Above brown, inclining to ashy on head and upper back, and 
to rufous on lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, the latter of which 
are plainly barred and broadly tipped with pure white; forehead white; 
*Through the interest of Mr. William Edmonds, teacher in the Batanes, a 
specimen of the tic-wee buzzard from Batan has been sent to the Bureau of Science. 
We are under obligations to Mr. Otto Sheerer for two live specimens of this 
species which were caught in Batan. Still another tic-wee buzzard was captured 
on board the U. S. 8. Albatross in the vicinity of Camiguin Island, north of Luzon. 
